What’s it like to be a perfume blogger? Sometimes it’s like this. Van Cleef & Arpels Cologne Noire. I wonder sometimes whether a house, having released a line with two or three outstanding scents (Gardenia Petale, Bois d’Iris, and Muguet Blanc, depending) if the rest are guaranteed to be duds, if only by comparison. Notes [...]
Join me for a perfume ramble today, full of asides and opinion. Since I generally deliver opinion by the shovelful, that should come as no surprise. There was a confluence of events. First, this is the time of year that the heart (at least my heart) cries out for big white flowers of the in-your-face [...]
We have come to the last two in this series. Notes of lily, ylang, vanilla, sandalwood and peppercorns compose Lys Carmin. The name is very apt. This is a spiced-up lily. I get used to the more common pristine, virgin’ish lily, the one of Easter and springtime. This lily is more the in full bloom [...]
I got my hands on another sampler pack of the VCAs, so we will have a draw today for two sets of samples of all six of the Van Cleef & Arpels Collection Extraordinare scents. Just drop a comment in and you’ll be entered. There have been some great reviews of Bois d’Iris from VCACE [...]
After reading some of the early reports on this new collection from Van Cleef & Arpels collection Extraordinaire, I wasn’t expecting much. Nieman-Marcus was offering a set of samples as a freebie when you buy something else, so I was happy to get them and see for myself. The price point doesn’t make me happy, [...]